Professional Profile

Dr Smith is a highly skilled and experienced Pain Specialist with expertise across a full spectrum of chronic pain treatment. This includes the best use of pain medicines, multidisciplinary pain management approaches, pain block procedures, and advanced interventional procedures including surgical implants for neuromodulation (spinal cord and peripheral stimulation).  He has worked in world leading centres in the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia. He is currently based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Pain and Neuromodulation Centre in London.  His special interests include spinal pain, neuropathic pain (nerve pain), headache and facial pain, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. He believes that good communication is key to good outcomes. He has an impressive clinical research background and he teaches and lectures regularly on pain.